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Soviet Names Envoy to Syria

MOSCOW, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Nuritdin A. Mukhitdinov, a former Uzbek premier and party chief who was a member of the Soviet leadership from 1957 to 1961, has been appointed ambassador to Syria. He was a deputy chief of the State Committee for Foreign Cultural Relations, which has been abolished.

February 13, 1968

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